jayzeekay Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 I'm planning to get Gigabyte EP45-UD3R motherboard for my new pc. I have 80GB IDE hard disk. So I would like to know if it is possible to install Snow Leopard on IDE (ATA) rather than SATA. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch_de Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Should not make any problems if you have less/equal 2 GB RAM installed. If more you will get Kernel Panic. To avoid that (if oyu have more than 2 GB RAM) you can give kernel parameter maxmem=2048 at boottime for the first install. Or use some prepared Boot CDs with an ATA Fix kext which will preloaded and avoid KP also. Same after install - you need an ATA Fix ( in /EXTRA ) to avoid KP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayzeekay Posted February 20, 2010 Author Share Posted February 20, 2010 So if I get only 2GB of RAM then there should be no problems installing from a Retail DVD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b3ta Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 Hm. I just did it on a PC with 4 Gigs of RAM, working fine with the Snow Leo Hazard Release . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 It depends on the driver used. Older ones have a bug that causes crashes on systems with 4GB RAM or more. There's a sticky post about it in this forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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